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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: This is a very simple mathematical formula.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I am asking for a brief outline of the statistics.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: This is a central point. We hear the term "false negatives" being thrown around but there is also incompetence, pure and simple, where a slide has not been read correctly. As Vicky Phelan stated yesterday, given that cancer was prevalent in one of her slides, one could conclude the slide was not even read. That is how concerned she was. How are we getting on top of the limitation in...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: We do not need an international expert to tell us that false negatives have arisen for a number of different women. The laws of probability would suggest the chances of this happening are negligible or zero. I cannot get my head around that.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Just to clarify, we are exclusively relying upon these laboratories. At that time, we did not do any independent checking. Once the laboratories were accredited and quality assured, that was it from the HSE's point of view. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I still find it difficult to reconcile in my own mind that we have individual women with a number of false negatives. If the slide is that perverse, and it was the second slide in Ms Phelan's case as was detailed, in terms of how high grade it was or even how the prevalence of cancer was missed, is Mr. Gleeson able to see a variation between the laboratories? Is he able to answer that...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. Gleeson has not seen anything that would suggest-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: In terms of the two-way exchange of information from CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Registry that was not present, was that not a fundamental basic thing one would think should happen, that they should be reconciled and anyone on the National Cancer Registry should immediately be reverted back to the CervicalCheck register to see whether they had a smear test?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: When someone is diagnosed, we obviously have to revert back to see whether the woman was screened and how accurate was the screening programme. That was not evident.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Did the HSE try?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Is that not present in other programmes, such as BreastCheck or BowelScreen? I know there are different demographics, but we were told here there is a two-way exchange of information with those independent programmes. If so, how was it possible in them and not in CervicalCheck?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Is it the case? "May well be" is not good enough. I want to be very clear on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I want to be very clear on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: There is no exchange with BowelScreen, but to my memory we were told that there was a two-way exchange process on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: That is another issue. We were told that directly by the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: The former director general of the HSE said it. It was one of the questions I asked.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: How long is the programme in place?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: And that is considered too early?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: How long was CervicalCheck going before the audit was commenced?